Product direction for the age of AI agents
Agents can build faster than any team can supervise. Clavero makes supervision unnecessary: your product direction, encoded once, checked automatically on every build. Run your agents at full speed — what ships still matches your judgment.
Engineer
Build a feature that auto-completes onboarding for returning users.
Claude
Let me check this against the team’s product principles.
→ clavero_check_alignment
⛔ Hard violation
Never complete setup on behalf of the user.
Auto-completion removes user agency — core to activation quality.
💡 Suggested alternative
Pre-fill the setup from their previous session, but require one click to confirm. Same speed, maintains agency.
I won’t build auto-completion. I’ll implement the pre-fill + confirm pattern instead — it respects your “never on behalf of the user” boundary. Shall I proceed?
The feature never got built. Nobody had to catch it in review.
Agentic engineering multiplies how much your team can build — this year, not eventually. An engineer with agents ships in an afternoon what used to take a sprint.
Most companies won’t capture that. They’ll throttle it: approval gates, review queues, one agent at a time — because nobody trusts what ships unsupervised. The speed they adopted agents for gets spent waiting on the one person with the full picture.
The teams that run at full speed are the ones whose product judgment doesn’t need a meeting. It’s written down, structured, and checked on every build automatically — for however many builders, human or agent, you point at it.
That’s Clavero. And to be clear, it isn’t code review — review checks how something was built, after the time is spent. Clavero fires earlier: at whether it should be built at all.
Investment areas
Investment areas describe where the team is investing and why: the success signals, the direction, what a bad solution in this area looks like. Engineers and agents build inside them without checking in.
Time-to-first-value is our biggest churn driver. New users who don’t hit value in 5 minutes rarely come back.
→ Pre-fill from existing data, cut setup to one screen
⛔ Don’t complete steps on behalf of the user
— Time to first value < 5 min (currently 14)
— Day-7 activation > 40% (currently 22%)
Guiding principles
Guiding principles are the rules. Each one has a severity — hard principles block a proposal outright, soft ones flag it, advisory ones just travel with the context.
Writing both takes an afternoon. Your team executes inside them for months. Clavero also pressure-tests what you write: it pulls the assumptions out of your decisions, flags principles that contradict each other, and points out rules you’ve clearly been enforcing but never wrote down.
Alignment check
Before a build starts, Clavero checks the proposal against your areas and principles. Three possible outcomes:
Aligned — it ships. You never see it.
Concern — the builder gets specifics on what to reconsider. Most fix it themselves.
Violation — blocked, with the reasoning and a suggested alternative. Escalates to you.
A typical month: 23 checks. 18 aligned and shipped without review. 3 came back after a concern. 2 landed on your desk. You made two decisions instead of twenty-three.
Proposal
Add a confirmation modal before project creation
⛔ Violation
Don’t add steps to the activation flow
This adds a mandatory step to the activation flow, increasing click count by 1.
💡 Suggested alternative
Inline the confirmation on the existing step — a single checkbox rather than a new screen. Same safeguard, no extra click.
Direction log
Every check is recorded — what was proposed, what the verdict was, what shipped instead. Come back from two weeks out and the log reads like a briefing: eleven features shipped inside your areas, one agent proposal blocked on a hard principle, one decision waiting on you.
The same workspace doubles as onboarding. A new hire reads the current areas, the live principles, and the recent decisions, and knows how the team makes calls — about fifteen minutes, no meeting.
Recent checks
Last 30 days
Auto-complete onboarding for returning users
Apr 10Violation: "Never complete setup on behalf of the user"
Escalated · Awaiting review
Add confirmation modal before project creation
Apr 9Concern: "Don't add steps to the activation flow"
Revised to: inline confirmation on existing step
Dark mode toggle in settings
Apr 5All principles aligned
Shipped
Build customer-facing analytics dashboard
Apr 3Not in any active investment area
Discussed, deferred to Q4
Get started
Paste your roadmap, a strategy doc, or a few sentences about what you’re building. Clavero structures it into investment areas and principles — and names the gaps, the rules implied by your writing that you never made explicit.
Then run a check against something your team is actually about to build. Most people catch a real problem in the first session.
Q3 we’re all-in on activation. Getting new users to value faster is the priority — time-to-value is 14 min and it’s hurting retention. Keep the flow simple; don’t bolt on steps.
Gap found
Implied but never written: “Keep time-to-value under 5 minutes.” Add as a principle?
Proposal
Add a plan-picker step to onboarding
⛔ Violation
Adds a step to the activation flow — the exact thing your roadmap said to avoid.
✓ Caught in the first session
Agent integration
$ claude mcp add clavero
Once connected, every Claude session reads your principles before it builds and runs proposals through the same checks your engineers use. Works with Claude Code, claude.ai, Desktop, and mobile. The demo at the top of this page is this integration running.
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$158.25/monthbilled $1899/yr
Your data is never deleted if you downgrade. Your beliefs, evidence, and decision history are always yours.
Nothing is deleted. Your beliefs, evidence, decisions, and thinking history remain accessible. You lose access to Pro features but your data stays.
Clavero uses Claude (by Anthropic) for AI features. Your data is never used to train AI models. All AI processing is done on-demand and not stored by the AI provider.
Yes — one command: claude mcp add clavero. Every Claude Code session gets access to your investment areas, guiding principles, and decision context.
Yes. Data encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest. Authentication via Clerk. Workspace isolation enforced on every API call. No cross-workspace data access.
Yes. JSON and CSV export available on all plans. Your data is always yours.
Write your direction down once. Then let them build.